Getting To Outcomes™ for Veterans Service Organizations: Pilot Test of an Interactive Online Implementation Support Tool

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chinman, Matthew

Contributor:

Acosta, Joie D.

Shearer, Amy L.

Language:

English

Other Title:

Getting To Outcomes for Veterans Service Organizations

Place of Publication:

RAND Corporation 2024

Summary:

Despite a wide variety of nonprofit and governmental resources available to Veterans and their families, many Veterans lag behind the general population in general measures of health and wellness. Local Veterans Service Organizations (VSOs) face challenges with the implementation and evaluation of research-based practices that can maximize and sustain positive impacts on Veterans and their families. In this report, the authors describe the development and pilot testing of eGTO™, an online interactive support system that VSOs can use to address these challenges. eGTO is based on Getting To Outcomes™ (GTO™) — a ten-step evidence-based support process that any organization can use to implement, evaluate, and continuously improve programs aiming to prevent negative behaviors or outcomes, such as suicide, substance abuse, and homelessness. The authors describe GTO and how they collaborated with the technology development firm 3C to adapt GTO into an online format; they also describe how they conducted a pilot test of eGTO with three VSOs and discuss what their findings were.